Land Use History
¥Maine
ÐAgriculture
ÐReverting Forest
¥Togus Pond
ÐForest
ÐDevelopment
| *Maine land use has changed
dramatically over the past 200 hundred years during which Agriculture has
been the most significant source of land use change. |
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| *In 1600, Maine was almost
entirely forested, with forest covering 92% of the total land area of the state. |
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| *By the late 1870Õs,
roughly 5 million acres of this forest area had been lost, primarily
because of conversion to agricultural uses. |
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| *The area of forested land
in Maine reached a historical low in 1872, with forest covering only 53%
of total land area. |
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| But, since the turn of the
20th century, land use in the Maine followed the predominant
trend in New England as a decline in agricultural land use was accompanied
by increasing residential development and reverting forest lands. |
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| Togus Pond land use history
reflects this pattern as forest and development dominate the land use types
for the watershed area today |